Packaging of wallpapering material



March 28, 1944. H. FREUND 21,345,190

PACKAGING OF WALLPAPERING MATERIAL Filed March 27, 1943' Patented Mar.28, 1944 2,345,190 PACKAGING F WALLPAPERING MATERIAL Harry Freund,Chicago, 111., assignor to United Wall Paper Factories, Inc., acorporation of Delaware Application March 27, 1943, Serial No. 480,781

4 Claims. (oi. 20647) This invention relates to an improvement in thepackaging of wallpapering materials. Herepapered, and to purchase justenough border material for such walls. When purchasing a number of smallrolls in the customary way, it has sometimes been impossible to find inthe available stock from which the rolls are selected, rolls in whichthe colors accurately match each other inasmuch as all of the rolls arenot necessarily made in the same run of the wallpaper printing machine.

The conventional method of packaging wallpaper in relatively small rollsalso, in many cases, results in considerable waste of paper because ofunusable left-over lengths. Again, the householder who purchaseswallpaper and attempts to do the work of hanging it without employing askilled tradesmen often finds it very difiicult to properly determinehow many rolls of paper are required and how much paste material shouldbe purchased and prepared.

The present invention has for its main objects the packaging ofwallpapering material in package units, each embodying all of thwallpaper, border and paste material required for the wallpapering ordecorating of the average sized room, thereby simplifying for a personunskilled in the art of paper hanging the purchase of such materials; tosimplify the dealer's problem of stocking, handling and sellingwallpaper; and in general, it is the object of the invention to providean improved package of wallpapering material.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be understood byreference to the following specification and accompanying drawing,wherein there is illustrated an improved package of wallpaperingmaterial embodying a selected form of the invention In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective illustrating a complete package;

Fig. 2 is a perspective illustrating the package with the outer wrapperremoved;

Fig. 3 is a. longitudinal section on the plane indicated by the line 33of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fi 3.

.The improved package illustrated in the drawing embodies a single orcontinuous web of wallpaper 5 wound into a roll on a tubular cardboardcore 6.

The wallpaper 5 is rolled with its decorative surface on the outside ofthe roll so that. the design of the paper is visible on the surface ofthe roll as indicated at 1 in Figs. 1 and 2. To prevent the wallpaperfrom unrolling, small tape strips such as indicated at 8 are adhesivelyattached at the opposite sides of the outer end portion of the wallpaperweb, and said tape strips extend beyond said outer end so as to overlapand be secured to the respective margins of the roll beyond theotherwise free end of the web. The wallpaper is normally provided withunfinished margins 9 which are to be trimmed from the web preparatory tohanging of the web, and said tape strips are applied in said marginalareas whereby no loss of wallpaper can be occasioned by the removal ofthe tape strips when the roll is opened.

The length of the web of wallpaper which is wound into the roll ispreferably such that a single roll of the paper will be adequate tocover a room of average size.

A strip of border paper is wound upon itself to form a roll H! which isdisposed within one end portion of the hollow of the core 6, said corebeing of such inside diameter that it will readily accommodate theroller border strip.

A package ll of paste material is also disposed in the hollow of saidcore 6, said package being of any suitable construction. In thisinstance the paste package H is illustrated as being in the form of apaper board cylinder having end caps l3 applied thereto and containingpowdered paste material [4. The length of the. paste material packageand the length of the border strip roll to is preferably such that whenthe packages are disposed end to end within the core 6, they Willsubstantially equal the length of said core.

A sample strip Ills of the border material is secured to the outside ofthe roll of Wallpaper with the design of the borderstrip facingoutwardly so as to 'be visible. Said sample strip extends lengthwise ofthe roll and is adhesively secured to the surface thereof adjacent tothe end of the wall paper web, preferably within an inch or two thereof.By so locating the border sample strip, only a few inches of the endportion of the wall paper web will be spoiled because of the attachmentof the border strip. It is desirable that the border strip should notoverlap the end of the wallpaper web so as to avoid any possibility ofsmearing any adhesive employed for attaching the sample strip to thesurface of the roll on the surface of the roll beyond said end of theweb. As shown in Fig. 2, the border sample strip His is spaced a shortdistance, indicated at 15, from the free end of the wall paper web, saiddistance being usually less than the width of the border strip althoughsubject to considerable variation since it is not critical. It may beobserved, however, that the closer said sample strip is disposed to theend of the wallpaper web, the lower the necessary waste of wallpaper,

The Wallpaper roll, including the attached border sample strip and theenclosed paste material package and border strip roll, is wrapped in atransparent wrapping sheet 16 which may be of any suitable material suchas Cellophane, Pliofilm, or glassine paper, through which the design ofthe wallpaper and of the border sample may be observed. Said wrapperprefera'bly extends more than once around the roll so as to have anouter end portion overlapping an.- other portion. The Width of theoverlap is pref.- erably small, as indicated at H, and the overlappingportions are adhesiveiy united so as to maintain the wrapper in tautcondition around the roll. Adhesive employed for securin the over.-lapped portions of the wrapper together is spaced from the inner end ofthe wrapper sufficiently to prevent any of such adhesive from reachingthe surface of the wallpaper, and it should, of course, be of suchcharacter that it will not penetrate the wrapper and thereby reach thesurface of the wallpaper. As indicated in Fig. .4, the overlappedportions of the wrapper are adhesively united in only a portion I8 ofthe width of the overlapped areas for the purpose indicated.

The wrapper I6 is of greater width than the length of the roll, and endportions IQ of the wrapper are folded inwardly across the ends of thepackage where they are secured by means of sealing discs 20 which areadhesively attached to said inwardly folded wrapper portions. As shown,the sealing members 20 are disposed on the outside of the package ends,and they may advantageously be in the form of labels which may carryidentifying data for the content. of the package.

The combined length of the paste material package and the border striproll, being substantially equal to the length of the roll of wallpaper,is effectively held against endwise shifting within the roll by thesealed wrapper ends. This arrangement avoids the application ofconsiderable forces on the Wrapper such as would occur if the enclosedpaste package or border strip roll were permitted to slide endwise inthe handling of the roll, with the resulting hammering on the sealedwrapper ends. Furthermore, this arrangement prevents the border striproll from being distort.- ed as by inward or outward coning, whichcondition would make possible damaging of the relatively weak conedportions of the roll.

The described wallpaper package, embodying enough wallpaper in acontinuous length for the papering of the walls of an average room,pro,- vides a number of important advantages. For example, a singlelength web of Wallpaper for a room of given size need not embody as muchwallpaper as the conventional single, double, or triple rolls inasmuchas there is considerable economy obtained by avoiding thewaste of endportions of many rolls instead of one roll. Again, the purchaser of acontinuous length roll of wallpaper sufl'icient for the walls of oneroom avoids any difiiculty in respect of matching a multiplicity ofrolls as is required in the conventional practice. Where a continuousroll web is purchased, it is necessarily true that the entire length waspro uced in a single run o the wallp printing machine, which makes itpractically certain that there will be no variation in the shading ofthe colors employed in the printing of the web. Where a multiplicity ofrolls are purchased for the papering of the walls of a single room, itis important that the color employed in the designs in each roll becarefully matched with those of the other rolls inasmuch as the rollsmay have been produced in two or more runs of the wallpaper printingmachine with at least some variation in the shades of the colorsemployed in the printing of such rolls.

The sealed wrapping of the rolls also insures delivery to the customerof a clean roll of Wallpaper usable substantially in its entirety,thereby o din lo ses ncident to tearin and soilin of t e uter ndportions of c nventional unwrapp wallpaper r l s, A ain, in the retailselling of Wal paper acka ed in the manner above descri ed, the mat rialmay e priced per r om rather than per roll, and this is advantageous tobOththe customer and the dealer in that the customer immediately knowsthe cost of a com- Piste oom lob and the dealer is saved the necessityof: Computing the cost of the several items constituting an order formaterial for the deco, rating of one room. Further advantage is found inthe fact that a single web of the necessary length for papering oneroom, when wound into a single roll, produces a considerably smallerpackage than would an equivalent number of conventional short lengthrolls when bundled together. Hence, handling of the wallpaper isfacilitated and storage space requirements substantially reduced.Changes may be made in the described package without departing from theinvention as defined in the following claims.

I claim:

'1. A wallpaper package comprising a tubular roll 01 wallpaper havingits decorative surface on the outside of the roll, a roll of borderpaper and a package of paste material removably positioned in the hollowof said tubular roll of wallpaper, a sample strip of said border paperextending longitudinally of said roll and secured to the surface thereofwith the decorative side of the border strip facing outwardly, the widthof said border strip being substantially less than the circumference ofsaid roll so as to leave visible a major portion of said roll surface, awrapper of trans parent sheet material around said roll and having endportions folded inwardly over the ends of the roll, and seals overlyingand adhesively united to said inwardly folded wrapper end portions atboth ends of the package.

2. A Wallpaper package comprising a tubular roll of wallpaper having itsdecorative surface on the outside of the roll, a roll of border, paperand a package of paste material removably posi tioned in the hollow ofsaid tubular roll of wallpaper, a sample strip of said border paperextending longitudinally of said roll and secured to the surface thereofwith the decorative side of the border strip facing outwardly, thewidthof said border strip being substantially less than the circumference ofsaid roll so as to leave visible a major portion of said roll surface, awrapper of transparent sheet material around said roll and having endportions folded inwardly over the ends of the roll, and seals overlyingand adhesively united to said inwardly folded wrapper end portions atboth ends of the package, said roll of border paper and package of pastematerial being disposed in end to end relation in said hollow and havinga combined length substantially equal to the length of said roll ofwallpaper, whereby longitudinal shifting of said border roll and pastematerial package within the wrapped roll is prevented by the sealed endsof said wrapper.

3. A wallpaper package comprising a tubular roll of wallpaper having itsdecorative surface on the outside of the roll, the wallpaper havingunfinished longitudinal marginal portions adapted to be trimmed offbefore hanging of the paper, tape strips adhesively secured to saidmarginal portions at the outer end of the rolled wallpaper andoverlapping and secured to said marginal portions beyond said end toprevent unrolling of the paper, a roll of border paper and a package ofpaste removably positioned in the hollow of said tubular roll ofwallpaper, a sample strip of said border paper extending longitudinallyof said roll and secured to the surface thereof in spaced relation tosaid outer end of the wallpaper with the decorative side of the borderstrip facing outwardly, the Width of said border strip beingsubstantially less than the circumference of said roll so as to leavevisible a major portion of said roll surface, a wrapper of transparentsheet material around said roll and having end portions folded inwardlyover the ends of the roll, and seals overlying and adhesively united tosaid inwardly folded wrapper end portions at both ends of the package.

4. A wallpaper package comprising a hollow paper board core, a web ofwallpaper wound into a roll on said core with the decorative surface ofsaid paper on the outside of the roll, the wallpaper having unfinishedlongitudinal marginal portions adapted to be trimmed off before hangingof the paper, tape strips adhesively secured to said marginal portionsat the outer end of the rolled wallpaper and overlapping and secured tosaid marginal portions beyond said end to prevent unrolling of thepaper, a roll of border paper and a package of paste material removablypositioned in the hollow of said core, a sample strip of said borderpaper extending longitudinally of said roll and secured to the surfacethereof in spaced relation to said outer end of the wallpaper with thedecorative side of the border strip facing outwardly, the width of saidborder strip being substantially less than the circumference of saidroll so as to leave visible a marginal portion of said roll surface, awrapper of transparent sheet material around said roll and having endportions folded inwardly over the ends of the roll, and seals extendingacross the ends of said roll and adhesively united to said inwardlyfolded wrapper end portions.

HARRY FREUND.

